'You will probably change your manner of living, Mr Boffin, in your changed circumstances.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
“With pleasure,” replied D’Artagnan; “I must, however, first frankly tell you that you must change your mode of life.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas
And if you talk of the necessity of changing your mode of life, of retiring from public life to a life of privacy and ease, he says, "We ought long ago to have got rid of uproar 377 and envy."
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch
At last, late one evening, there was a sudden start of exultant satisfaction among some of the young men who were lounging on the green; for the most part not the nobles of the court, but certain young merchants of London and Bristol, who had followed the course of pilgrimage by the magnetism of fashionable resort.
— from The Prince and the Page: A Story of the Last Crusade by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge
Don't be such a fool as to try to change your manner of living just when you have an opportunity to live as [Pg 37] you should and enjoy what is coming to you.
— from Cutting It Out How to get on the waterwagon and stay there by Samuel G. (Samuel George) Blythe
I tell you, Gilbert Denison, that if you do not change your mode of life at once and for ever, you will not live to see your thirtieth birthday.
— from The Mysteries of Heron Dyke: A Novel of Incident. Volume 1 (of 3) by T. W. (Thomas Wilkinson) Speight
"I did not say that, Mrs. Sanderson, but if you desire to get well you must completely change your mode of life."
— from With Edge Tools by H. C. (Hobart Chatfield) Chatfield-Taylor
So, as we have considered you more or less our own daughter, we are going to kick you out.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari. Volume 93, September 10, 1887 by Various
W. BAGNALL, Newland, Coleford, Gloucester. OAKLEY, FRANK P., Hanging Bridge Chambers, Cathedral Yard, Manchester. OLIVER & LEESON, Bank Chambers, Mosley Street, Newcastle-on-Tyne. OSBORNE, WILLIAM, 30, Reform Street, Beith, N.B. OVEY, RICHARD, J.P., Badgemore, Henley-on-Thames.
— from Illustrated History of Furniture: From the Earliest to the Present Time by Frederick Litchfield
Removing débris from interior of the ruins, 320 cubic yards, more or less, $1 per yard; 140 cubic yards from exterior of the ruins, at 60 cents per yard.
— from The Repair Of Casa Grande Ruin, Arizona, in 1891 Fifteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1893-94, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 315-348 by Cosmos Mindeleff
Perhaps a hint to the wise was sufficient, and you have changed your manner of living."
— from Under Sealed Orders by H. A. (Hiram Alfred) Cody
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